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It looks pretty reasonable to me... They don't want child porn and rape videos on their servers. I honestly don't see the problem here.

dchest 14y ago
Citing the whole thing and highlighting the problem in italic: === You may not publish, transmit or store on or via the Rackspace Cloud’s network and equipment any content or links to any content that the Rackspace Cloud reasonably believes: - Constitutes, depicts, fosters, promotes or relates in any manner to child pornography, bestiality, or non-consensual sex acts; - is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence or contains harassing content or hate speech; - is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes; - is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy; - creates a risk to a person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement; - improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person; - is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections; - infringes on another person’s copyright, trade or service mark, patent or other property right; - promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling or illegal arms trafficking; - is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to the Rackspace Cloud; or - is otherwise malicious, fraudulent or may result in retaliation against the Rackspace Cloud by offended viewers. === For example, publishing this comment would be a violation of these terms, because it links to exposed trade secret (http://web.archive.org/web/20080404222417/http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/09/msg00304.html http://web.archive.org/web/20080404222417/http://cypherpunks...), to content that infringes trademark (http://www.apple.com/iphone http://www.apple.com/iphone), violates export control laws (https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/network https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/network), and content that is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime).
- rhizome 14y ago
  That's not the only part. They have complete discretion by their use of the following words: excessively risk interferes improperly intended promotes malicious may result
mseebach 14y ago
Both of those are directly illegal. You don't, as a business, need to explicitly state that your service can't be used for illegal purposes. This AUP amounts to "If we (or someone else with power to be sufficiently annoying to us) don't like it, it's going offline. kthxbye". Of course they can't state it in that many words, because people prefer to do business with providers that at least pretend to be on their side.

dchest 14y ago

Citing the whole thing and highlighting the problem in italic: === You may not publish, transmit or store on or via the Rackspace Cloud’s network and equipment any content or links to any content that the Rackspace Cloud reasonably believes: - Constitutes, depicts, fosters, promotes or relates in any manner to child pornography, bestiality, or non-consensual sex acts; - is excessively violent, incites violence, threatens violence or contains harassing content or hate speech; - is unfair or deceptive under the consumer protection laws of any jurisdiction, including chain letters and pyramid schemes; - is defamatory or violates a person’s privacy; - creates a risk to a person’s safety or health, creates a risk to public safety or health, compromises national security or interferes with a investigation by law enforcement; - improperly exposes trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information of another person; - is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections; - infringes on another person’s copyright, trade or service mark, patent or other property right; - promotes illegal drugs, violates export control laws, relates to illegal gambling or illegal arms trafficking; - is otherwise illegal or solicits conduct that is illegal under laws applicable to you or to the Rackspace Cloud; or - is otherwise malicious, fraudulent or may result in retaliation against the Rackspace Cloud by offended viewers. === For example, publishing this comment would be a violation of these terms, because it links to exposed trade secret (http://web.archive.org/web/20080404222417/http://cypherpunks.venona.com/date/1994/09/msg00304.html http://web.archive.org/web/20080404222417/http://cypherpunks...), to content that infringes trademark (http://www.apple.com/iphone http://www.apple.com/iphone), violates export control laws (https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/network https://github.com/sqlcipher/sqlcipher/network), and content that is intended to assist others in defeating technical copyright protections (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_prime).

rhizome 14y ago
That's not the only part. They have complete discretion by their use of the following words: excessively risk interferes improperly intended promotes malicious may result

mseebach 14y ago

Both of those are directly illegal. You don't, as a business, need to explicitly state that your service can't be used for illegal purposes. This AUP amounts to "If we (or someone else with power to be sufficiently annoying to us) don't like it, it's going offline. kthxbye". Of course they can't state it in that many words, because people prefer to do business with providers that at least pretend to be on their side.